1. In what ways do you think Anne has changed throughout the course of the novel?

2. How has Anne's opinion of her parents changed (especially her father)?

3. What were Anne's parents' childhoods like? Do you think it affects the way that Anne is?

4. "I twist my heart around again so the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be if there weren't any other people living in the world." What do you think Anne meant by this?

5. Do you think that Anne and Peter's relationship would have grown if they wouldn't have gotten caught?

6. What did you think of the end of the book?